For the Steep Canyon Rangers, 2009 was a remarkable year. The Brevard-based band — Woody Platt (guitar and lead vocals), Graham Sharp (banjo, harmony vocals), Mike Guggino (mandolin and harmony vocals), Charles R. Humphrey III (bass and harmony vocals) and Nicky Sanders (fiddle and harmony vocals) — released its fourth studio album, Deep in the […]
Year: 2010
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Wild Ones
Those Darlins play kick-ass rock and roll. Period. With Link Wray-style guitar riffs, three-piece harmonies delivered with a Loretta Lynn "Fist City" swagger, and songs full of booze, family, sex and food, Those Darlins are plowing a row through rock 'n' roll history. Girls just wanna have fun: Those Darlins share a common last name, […]
Artillery
For those of you who just can't shake that scene from Ghost — the one where Patrick Swayze's apparition cozies up to Demi Moore while she works at her potter's wheel — Odyssey Center for Ceramic Arts (in Asheville's River Arts District) is your kind of place. The studio is offering clay "date nights" every […]
Junker’s Blues
When we last left the junker, he'd just visited the condominium of a recently widowed woman. She was divesting the trappings of her culturally active life with her husband (they = the Bohemians of said fable), including hundreds of vinyl records. Most were no longer in vogue, but the junker set aside a number of […]
Junker’s Blues
In the last installment of Junker's Blues, a handshake deal for a large collection of records goes bad when the junker receives a mysterious anonymous phone call. He's told there was a misunderstanding and that the LPs had never been for sale in the first place. This leads the junker, prone to fanciful narrative flights […]
Don’t scapegoat the homeless
I was dismayed by some statements published in the Asheville Citizen-Times recently and attributed to Asheville City Council member Jan Davis. An article in the Dec. 15 Citizen-Times titled "Police Hope to Boost Presence Downtown With Substation" said that "Residents and business owners have voiced concerns over nuisance crimes such as public drunkenness and panhandling, […]
Soundtrack
Bands must love Jack of the Wood: The downtown bar comes with a built-in crowd that often fills the venue to capacity on Friday and Saturday nights. But guaranteed crowd doesn't mean guaranteed supporters, so at a recent Honeycutters show, the relatively new country act made quick work of turning a room full of strangers […]
Outdoors: Catawba Falls
I heard about Catawba Falls as soon as I started hiking in Western North Carolina — how it was so beautiful, but it was such a shame you couldn't hike there anymore. It didn't take me long, though, to realize that the access trail was privately owned, and people shouldn't have been going there in […]
Back to the roots
Good, affordable organic food can be hard to find in Asheville. A case in point: Roots Café, the extension of a highly successful sauce and dressing wholesaler, is tucked into a back corner of the River Arts District at an off-the-beaten-path address. Photo by Jonathan Welch "Honestly, people finding us has been the hardest part […]
Corrections
• Last week's Small Bites food-news column passed on erroneous information from Amazing Savings Web site (which is now being corrected on that site) about the days and hours of operation at the store's new location in Asheville's Downtown Market. The location is open during the following times: Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, […]
Waking up to racial profiling
Regarding your Dec. 23 cover story, "The Right Profile": As a woman, I have long been frustrated at what ultimately amounts to a lack of freedom for women in our "free" country. It is difficult for me to move about alone and feel completely safe. I am amazed at those women who brave a hike […]
A safe cyclist follows vehicle rules
As someone who has spent 37 years commuting on a bicycle (ever since I rode 15 miles round-trip [each day of] my senior year of high school), I have to respond to Christopher Craig's recent uninformed, condescending and self-indulgent comments about cars sharing the road with bicyclists [Commentary, "Finding Equlibrium," Dec. 9]. Folks like Mr. […]
Thanks to an anonymous snow angel
During the recent snowstorm, my friend and I finally ventured out of the apartment to get some air, see the snow, and find out how everyone around town was fairing. Snowball fights, snow sculptures, warm food and slushy puddles abounded. After a nightcap with some newfound friends, I walked back to my place. Somewhere along […]
YWCA: Take a stand against racism with us in April
The Dec. 23 Xpress cover story, "The Right Profile," drew attention to important racial-justice issues in our community. Because the YWCA stands for the right of individuals to be treated with dignity and respect, we believe that the key to effecting real change is to engage individuals and whole communities in a conversation about these […]
Small Bites
• Artisan Catering And Deli
• The Blackbird
• Iannucci's Pizzeria &Amp; Italian Restaurant
• Marco's Trattoria
• Terra Summer Cooking Class
Christians: Open your ears to the wailing wall
I sometimes wonder where all the Christians have gone in this country. … They seem to have all but disappeared until some election roles around the corner and then they creep out from behind the rocks and ledges of their counter-counter barracks. I am not talking about all Christians, mind you. Some are not hiding […]
Remember King’s lesson when weighing our national character
Thanks for printing the letter from Rachel Bliss, "Counting the Cost of the Afghan War in Asheville Terms." We need more community dialogue on this issue. While Rachel described the costs in dollars and lives, there are other costs that are not as quantifiable, but just as real. One of these costs is the degradation […]
Monkey tail
Act of Parliament
Bar Beat: Lexington Avenue Brewery
One of the most-anticipated new venues in downtown Asheville is on the cusp of opening. At press time, the Lexington Avenue Brewery, complete with a brewing operation, a full-fledged pub and restaurant and a live-music space, planned a soft opening on Wednesday, Jan. 6. (That move follows an informal ribbon-cutting last week, pictured here.) Photos […]
Ten best movies of 2009 and a few others
I think it’s fair to say that 2009 was an unusual film year—if only because my number-one film has been more or less constant since June, while everything else has been in flux. On the other hand, I can’t think of a year where my 10 best list altered so much between voting for the […]